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Customers can be such muppets. Greg will remember this one, one of my personal favourites: 1.Lady following ute down 100KPH road. 2.Concrete umbrella stand falls off ute deck, and lady clean runs it over. 3. Oil pressure light comes on ( accompanied by loud warning beeper), lady keeps driving. 4. Engine becomes sluggish and lacks power, lady keeps driving. 5.Accelleration becomes difficult, lady chops it down into 3rd....... You get the picture, we got it up on a hoist and found a hole in the alloy sump you could could fit a fist into and not touch the sides. Needless to say bottom end siezed after she eventually pulled over as she could go no further. She was apparently trying to drive it to our dealership to get it quote,"checked out", unquote

LOL havent heard that one before, right on the money +1. never nice when that happens to anyone, sorry to hear Jimbo

Hard to tell from the pics......Black alpina rims??

At least theyre gonna still allow public access, thats the main thing. BTW tony, some of us do read the articles, not just the headlines

Sweet rims Gus, should look nice

If so I'll take my paddle with the metal edged blades They dont let me play canoe polo with that one as it has a tendancy to break players fingers if I get too "enthusiastic"

Looks like a pretty nice tidy E28. Should be a beast when shes finished. You should open up a topic in the projects section, and you can keep us all posted on the progress.

hope it doesnt become a nation wide problem if the other tribes catch on and decide they want to put a claim on many more beaches an our country that everyone should be able to visit and enjoy.

That sucks, some people have no respect for otherpeoples pride and joy. Hope you get it all sorted man, sorry to hear the bad news.

Thats insane, Its just another step to widen the gap between Maori and everyone else. Be interesting to see thow they will "police" it all, and who exactly would issue the fines? Not a major deal, just irritates me that they are able do that.

Thats pretty poor on their part, I deal with many insurance companies in my day to day job (managing an automotive workshop), Autosure included, IMO, they shouldnt be expecting you to foot the bill if they authorise the part to be replaced. I would have thought that the cost of the faulty unit would be an issue that should be solved between Autosure and the company who diagnosed the fault ?? Its really the repairer who has advised/ decided that the part requires replacement, not the client. Insurance companies usually try to minimise their costs by (in my experience) trying to source second hand/used parts to achieve this. Yet Ive never heard of them suggesting their client should pay for the repairs if unsuccessful. It really sucks that their expecting you to foot the cost, Id be spewing if they suggested that to me. Anything in the Consumer Guarantees Act that might help you out? Just a thought, someone else may have had a similar experience to you and can shed some light on how they solved it?

had to laugh at this one: and this:

heres another good commercial, not very car related, but still a BMW commercial. BTW, I wish I had as much spare time as this guy does

You know we still expect a Smoko shout when you get back

Just watched it again, any1 else notice the 5KPH speed limit sign, just before that sick J turn

Thanks guys, a pre purchase check is definately on the cards before I go ahead. Ive been wanting to get another E36 for quite a while since my last one got murdered by rogue Nissan. No tears of joy that day Was only a 320iA, so a manual 325 might be a nice change

Yeah I had wondered if rust might be an issue. any common areas on E36's to pay attention to?

Saw this on TM and am sure its been on there for a while. Any one know the car or been to view it?? Anything common to watchout for on the UK imports? link Im interested in the car but curious if its been on here for a while that there might be some reason why its still not sold. Looks tidy from the outside but theres no interior or engine pics

ah, Classic..... I hope that guys face isnt what broke the step.... Imagine the headache from that hangover!! and +1 for the dodgey BS mega meet pics

Would love to see that V12 beast running on a tarmac/ sealed hillclimb. That thing sounded mint.

Yeah someone needs to teach those frenchies how to build a descent box, and how to calculate the cost of a new Trans.

LMAO! thats classic. Great way to start my day with a good laugh!!!!

Already did that and busted the 20 year old paper speaker cones to bits,.

Someone should ask for some pics of the engine bay. So whats the difference between a "normal twin cam 318" and his 318is?....... oh I forgot... about 130Kw..LOL